Ocyrhoe
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Ocyrhoe(/oʊˈsɪroʊiː/;Ancient Greek:Ὠκυρόη) orOcyrrhoe(Ὠκυρρόη) refers to at least five characters inGreek mythology.
- Ocyrrhoe, one of the 3,000Oceanids,water-nymphdaughters of theTitansOceanusand his sister-spouseTethys.[1]She was the mother ofPhasisbyHelios.[2]Ocyrhoe may refer to 'speed and mobility'.[3]
- Ocyrhoe, daughter ofChironandChariclo.She was transformed into a horse because she told her father Chiron his exact fate. Ocyrhoe revealed that he would forsake his immortality to be spared the agonizing pain of a serpent's poison. For this transgression, Ocyrhoe's ability to speak was taken. One might assume that she turned into a horse because her father was acentaur,and because she had long, auburn hair.[4]
- Ocyrrhoe orOcyone,a naiad-nymph.She was the mother, byHippasus,ofHippomedon(a defender ofTroy), to whom she gave birth on the banks of RiverSangarius.Her son was killed byNeoptolemus.[5]
- Ocyrrhoe orOcroe,the nymph daughter of theriver godImbrasusandChesias,a noble maiden. While inMiletusat a festival in honor ofArtemis,she caught Apollo's attention and, fleeing from his advances, askedPompilus,a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home. Pompilus took her on board the ship, but Apollo caught up with them, took the girl and then changed the ship into stone and Pompilus into a fish.[6]
- Ocyrrhoe, a nymph ofMysia,mother ofCaicusbyHermes.[7]
Notes[edit]
- ^Hesiod,Theogony360;Homeric HymntoDemeter420;Pausanias,4.30.4
- ^Pseudo-Plutarch,De fluviis5.1
- ^Kerenyi, p. 41.
- ^Ovid,Metamorphoses2.636–675
- ^Quintus Smyrnaeus,11.37
- ^Athenaeus,7.283 E(citingThe Founding of NaucratisbyApollonius Rhodius)
- ^Pseudo-Plutarch,De fluviis21.1
References[edit]
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,Deipnosophistae.Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hesiod,TheogonyfromThe Homeric Hymns and Homericawith an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- The Homeric Hymns and Homericawith an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Kerényi, Carl,The Gods of the Greeks,Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus,Moralstranslated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by.William W. Goodwin,PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphosestranslated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses.Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troytranslated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theio
- Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy.Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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